The range of intermediate damage in the special mode was increased from 5 m to 12 m.

Increased the percentage of average splash damage for special shots (sniping mode) from 50% to 90%.

Changes in the characteristics of ISIDA:

Increased the number of points received for repairing tanks from 10 to 12.

Changes in the parameters of Overdrives:

Mammoth:

Overdrive duration reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds;

increased reload speed of Overdrive by 40%;

increased maximum speed boost of the tank from 25% to 30%.

Wasp:

increased Overdrive recharge rate by 11%.

Changed attribution of points in Gear Score:

turret — from 0 to 4000;

body — from 0 to 4000;

each protection module — from 40 to 400;

drone — from 50 to 500;

each supply (except the gold box) — from 0 to 40;

turret/hull skin — 15;

shot effect — 15;

legendary paint — 14;

epic paint — 9;

rare paint — 5;

ordinary paint — 1.

Changes in maps:

Removed one of the Nuclear Energy drop zones for some modes in Stadium.

Reduced the overall height of the map and changed the ramps on Highway.

April 10 (Update 551)

Vulcan:

Reduced damage after overheating:

M0: 300 → 90;

M1: 397.06 → 119.12;

M2: 441.18 → 132.35;

M3: 529.41 → 158.82;

M3 +: 600 → 180.

Reduced barrel spin time by 0.5 s for all modifications

Vulcan’s "Incendiary band":

Now reduces damage per second by 20% instead of 10%

Vulcan’s "Shooting Speed ​​Regulator":

Now reduces damage per second by 20% instead of 25%

Striker’s Missile launcher "Hunter":

Reduced recharge time after volley:

M0: 2.5 → 1.5;

M1: 2.25 → 1.35;

M2: 2.11 → 1.27;

M3: 1.97 → 1.18;

M3 +: 1.8 → 1.08

Thunder’s "Subcaliber rounds":

Removed recoil penalty

Shaft’s "Rapid-fire mode”:

Now consumes 375 energy per shot instead of 380;

Additionally reduces the energy recovery rate after a shot by 15

Drones (all):

Now increase turret damage and hull defense by 1% to 5%

"Driver" Drone:

Recharge time is now 20 seconds instead of 12

Updated effects on existing supplies - Added 11th April

Now, Repair Kit, Double Damage (DD), Double Armour (DA), or Speed Boost have their respective visual effects when activated, which will show up on the tank at any distance. This will provide valuable tactical and strategic information for the attentive tanker.

March 29 (Update 550)

Minor changes in turret control when playing with the mouse or keyboard.

March 15 (Update 549)

Matchmaking changes that should prevent sabotage from groups.

Added the option to register and authorise via Google account in the browser version of the game.

March 29 (Update 451)

Number of steps for M3 hulls and turrets decreased to 20 (steps for modules remain 15);

Total step cost for M2 hulls, turrets and modules decreased and now equals to the cost of the stock M3 modification of the item;

Total step cost for M3 hulls, turrets and modules remains the same.

Changes to Daily Missions:

Now Daily Mission objectives can be only completed in standard (non-PRO) battles;

Rewards for Daily Missions increased by 10%.

Changes to Auto-completion system:

Monitoring start delay is now 60 sec (was 3 minutes);

Auto-completion waiting time is now 15 sec (was 30 sec);

Cooldown after cancelling auto-completion is now 10 sec (was 25 sec).

Rank limits when creating a battle expanded for all ranks.

Some bugs with Magnum fixed.

Critical errors disabled:

Up until now, when the Tanki Online client received a “strange” instruction, it would spit out a Critical Error and throw you out of the game. With this update, we’ll be disabling the Critical Error (when bugs will go off you will not be disconnected from the server).

March 23 (Update 450)

New turret “Magnum” released.

New protection modules with Magnum protection released:

Falcon S-C: Magnum;

Eagle D-E: Magnum, Shaft;

Panda D-D: Twins, Magnum;

Panda D-E: Ricochet, Magnum;

Panda D-F: Hammer, Magnum;

Ursa T-H: Isida, Ricochet, Magnum;

Ursa T-J: Twins, Striker, Magnum;

Kodiak T-K: Freeze, Striker, Magnum;

Kodiak T-L: Firebird, Vulcan, Magnum;

Griffon T-F: Striker, Magnum, Shaft;

Griffon T-G: Hammer, Magnum, Shaft;

Griffon T-H: Ricochet, Magnum, Shaft.

New achievements for Striker and Magnum added to Ratings.

New product kits with Magnum added to Shop:

“Unicorn”: Hornet M1 and Magnum M1;

“Archer”: Hunter M1 and Magnum M1;

“Panther”: Dictator M1 and Magnum M1;

“Excalibur”: Viking M2 and Magnum M2;

“Hyacinth”: Mammoth M2 and Magnum M2;

“Ballista”: Hunter M2 and Magnum M2;

“Siegfried”: Hunter M3 and Magnum M3;

“Bertha”: Mammoth M3 and Magnum M3;

“Gustav”: Titan M3 and Magnum M3;

These kits will not be available for purchase in Garage.

Changes to map pool of auto-created battles:

Novel, Lost Temple, Esplanade added;

Noise removed.

Issue with game loading using Firefox resolved.

Improvements in payment error form and handling.

“Critical error” optimization.

March 16 (Update 449)

Changes to all M0 hulls and turrets:

All M0 hulls and turrets are now available from the rank of Recruit;

Prices of all M0 hulls and turrets changed slightly;

Values of all parameters (excluding damage) and protection decreased slightly.

Changes to damage and protection of all M0, M1, M2 and M3 hulls and turrets:

Increase in damage and protection;

Changes don’t apply to M3+ hulls and turrets.

Changes to micro-upgrades for all M1 hulls and turrets:

Number of steps decreased from 50 to 10;

Total step cost halved and equals the cost of the M2 modification of the item;

Speed up cost is 2 times higher than step cost on each step;

The aggregate value of steps and speed ups remains the same;

These changes apply only to M1 modifications of all hulls and turrets;

All existing and completed M1 micro-upgrades will be converted.

Rental of Alterations.

Alterations can now be rented for 24 hours for the price of 5000 crystals.

Rent for real money removed.

Other changes.

Bulk discounts for buying items of the same type removed.

Discounts now don’t apply to product kits.

Garage Info about product kits’ content simplified.

Bonus supplies removed from the kits in the garage.

March 2 (Update 445)

Changes to micro-upgrades of M0 hulls and turrets:

Number of steps decreased from 50 to 10.

Total step cost halved and equals to the cost of M1 modification of the item.

Speed up cost is 2 times higher than step cost on each step.

The aggregate value of step and speed up remains the same.

February 16 (Update 441)

Bug fix for incorrect creation and joining battles.

Changes in the balance of Shaft, Hammer and Isida and their alterations:

Removal of self-healing function for Isida.

Hammer pellets now have Ricochet mechanic.

Shaft arcade shot damage now decreases over distance.

New flags added for clans - Romania, Turkey, Iran.

February 10 (Update 439)

Balance changes for Twins, Ricochet and Vulcan.

Alterations for Twins and Ricochet.

Changes to Vulcan's «Faster Horizontal Tracking» alteration.

Changes in the Player Ratings formula.

Bug fixes in the Clan system.

Bug fix for battles without Micro-upgrades.

February 1 (Update 437)

Player Ratings.

Supply drop zones are now visible from everywhere on the map.

Clan fixes.

New settings window.

Fixed kick exploitation bug.

January 26 (Update 436)

Clan System:

First iteration of clan system.

Released with limited functionality.

Changes in Ricochet mechanics:

Number of shots in magazine increased from 12 to 14.

Vertical aiming angle decreased.

Range of maximum damage is increased.

Smoky:

Decreased firing speed.

Decreased critical damage.

User Interface - When clicking on the garage button during a battle, players will no longer be asked whether they want to leave the battle, and will instead be taken directly to the garage without leaving the battle.

January 19 (Update 435)

Changes in the referral interface for the game client.

Minor fixes in Client optimization.

January 11 (Update 431)

Changes in Striker:

Increased grace period for recovering focus on a lost target when attempting to lock-on.

Angular velocity of rockets increased.

Reload speed Increased.

New Format - Hornet/Striker. Available for:

Hornet M3.

Hornet M2.

Striker M3.

Striker M2.

Changes for Shaft:

arcade-shot firing speed increased.

vertical aiming angles decreased.

recoil increased slightly.

Zoom increased in sniper mode.

New year content removed.

New bundle added in the Shop.

Fixed turning bug while driving in reverse with inverse control.

Fixed previews with Raider and Stalker kits in the Shop.

PayPal bundle removed from the Shop.

2016

December 23 (Update 430)

Striker turret has been added to the game.

New protection modules with Striker protection released:

New batch of Alterations released

High pressure pump - Firebird.

Corrosive mix - Freeze.

Support nanobots - Isida.

High capacity drum - Hammer.

Precision targeting system - Smoky.

Modified firing rate - Vulcan.

Armor-Piercing Ammo - Thunder.

High-caliber Ammo - Railgun.

Faster horizontal tracking - Railgun.

Assault emitters - Shaft.

Micro-upgrades and Alterations can now be disabled separately when creating a Pro Battle.

Friendly-fire option for Pro Battle implemented.

Deck-9 has a new preview image.

New Year Celebrations.

Themed garage decorations.

Themed in-game decorations.

Billboards.

Parachutes.

Flags.

Bushes.

Gold box skin.

Gold box drop zone.

Holiday image for "Thanks for your purchase".

2 holiday paints (one regular and one premium).

3 in-game gifts:

Candy Cane.

Snow Globe.

Gingerbread Tank.

December 8

The maps Magadan, Deck-9 and Canyon have been returned to the game and are only accessible using a Pro Battle Pass or Premium account.

Smoky’s critical damage will no longer be affected by distance from target.

The «Battle» button will no longer send players to maps that are unavailable at their rank.

Map-specific missions have been removed from the game.

Mid-October

Global update of the game balance. (update is being prepared for release)

December 19 (Update 208)

PRO Battles: more options when creating battles, including the ability to disable MUs.

Visual effect of rank up.

Crystals given to players for achieving each new rank. Crystals for previously achieved rank have been also given.

December 14 (Update 207)

New product kits have been added to the game.

Light effects from Thunder and Smoky hits have been changed.

December 12 (Update 206)

Brightness of lighting without shadows has been decreased.

December 11 (Update 205)

New physics model for tanks.

Improvements in anti-cheat system.

Reducing traffic between client part and server part of the game.

The order of items in Garage has been changed.

December 9 (Update 204)

Ability of inviting friends to battles has been further improved.

December 7 (Update 203)

Bottom ranks of supplies have been changed. «Nitro», «Double Power» and «Double Armor» are now available from Gefreiter, both in the shop and in daily gifts.

December 4 (Update 200)

Lighting from gunshots has been added to the game.

Now you can disable Anti-aliasing in settings.

Viewing angles on monitors with different aspect ratios are now the same.

Overall color correction of maps. Lighting without shadows has become brighter.

December 2 (Update 199)

From Christmas to Christmas event has started, 2014 crystals gold boxes have been added to the game.

November 27 (Update 196)

Ability to invite friends to battles has been added.

November 21 (Update 193)

Protections of some paints have been changed: Acid gives 18% from all weapons, Champion’s protections are now 25%.

Daily gifts are now available from 1 am (UTC+0)

October 31 (Update 190)

Halloween. Special flags, billboards, holiday paint, 3000 gold boxes and Halloween map have been added to the game.

October 10 (Update 188)

Farewell to Moon Silence event is over. Moon Silence map and holiday billboards have been removed from the game. Moonwalker paint has been removed from the shop.

October 3 (Update 187)

Beginning of Farewell to Moon Silence event. Moonwalker paint and holiday billboards have been added to the game. Value of gold boxes on Moon Silence has been increased to 3,000 crystals. The chance of it being dropped has been increased by half.

September 28 (Update 186)

New product kits have been added to the game.

September 2 (Update 181)

Holiday billboards and a special paint for Tankman’s Day have been added to the game.

August 19 (Update 180)

«Platform» map has been removed from the game.

August 15 (Update 179)

Descriptions in the Garage and texts on loading screens in the English version of the game have been corrected.

August 13 (Update 178)

Special paints for forum moderators, cybersport representatives and members of the Creative League have been added to the game.

August 1 (Update 176)

Changes to the rules of the game have been made: now it is forbidden to post referral links in the chat and in the forum.

July 20 (Update 173)

Some visual errors on Future, Factory and Platform maps have been fixed.

July 19 (Update 172)

Maps of winners of Looking for a Level Designer contest have been added to the game.

«Future» with CTF, DM and TDM modes.

«Factory» with CTF, DM and TDM modes.

«Platform» with CTF, DM and TDM modes.

July 18 (Update 171)

Some errors in Friends System have been fixed. There were problems with loading players' names in battle statistics and «New Friend» indicator.

Sound loading problem has been solved.

July 16 (Update 169)

Friends System and player context menu have been added.

Now team vote removes a player from no-supplies battles.

July 4 (Update 166)

Glide paint for crew making Tanki Online parkour tutorials has been added.

Lucky 7 paint for winners of Lucky 7 tournament has been added. The paint has 15% protection against all turrets.

Zeus paint description has been changed.

June 27 (Update 165)

Traceur paint has been added to Garage. The paint is temporary and will be removed once the Masters of Parkour contest is over.

Crash and Gallery maps have been switched off.

Minor updates in the payment section.

June 18 (Update 163)

Resists of Champion paint have been changed. Now it has 22% protection against all turrets.

May 9 (Update 151)

May 7 (Update 150)

May Day is over: Holiday paint and billboards are set to standard, gold boxes are back to default value.

May 1 (Update 149)

Gold box sound notification has been added.

April 29 (Update 148)

Notification that tells about gold box being dropped soon has been added. Drop zones for the bonus have been reworked.

April 17 (Update 144)

Funds in the game have been increased by 60%.

April 16 (Update 143)

«Team kick by vote» system’s testing has been completed.

April 12 (Update 142)

An ability to buy crystal in packages and receive bonus crystals has been added.

April 9 (Update 138)

An ability to kick a player from a team by voting has been added.

New product kits have been added.

Deep shadows effect (SSAO) has been added.

Anti-flood system has been improved.

Now it is much easier to select necessary items in the garage thanks to added Drag’n’Sсroll support.

Now items are equipped automatically after the purchase in your garage.

Resource loading has been optimized. You can join a battle a lot faster.

April 1 (Update 137)

Updated internal statistics system.

March 28 (Update 136)

Added a new chat command #news, which creates a link to «Russian Portal NEWS».

Added a new chat command #teams, which makes reference to the «Team» section of the forum.

March 27 (Update 135)

Added the effect of «dynamic shadows» on the visual effect of the «dust from the track»

March 21 (Update 134)

Added a separate checkbox to enable or disable the «dust» in the game options screen.

March 20 (Update 133)

Visual dust effect is added under tank tracks.

A tank in garage now has a shadow.

The holiday of «March 8» is over. Holiday paint and billboards are set to standard.

White rectangle tank bug in the garage is fixed.

March 14 (Update 132)

Fixed the display of the active filter buttons below the battle list.

March 12 (Update 130)

A feature to filter the battles list by game mode was added.

March 7 (Update 129)

Preparations for the, «March 8» holiday

Turned off the «Fort Knox» map

Changed the name of the map «Fort Knox II» to «Fort Knox»

Changed the name of the map «Fort Knox III» to «Edinburgh»

Improved the map «Forest»

Improved the map «Gravity»

Improved the map «Edinburgh»

Improved the map «Fort Knox»

February 26 (Update 128)

Improved the «anti-flood».

Information about buying crystals.

Improved the calculator in the payment section.

February 22 (Update 127)

Iron Days in Tanki Online.

Holiday paints and billboards.

25% Discount on all hulls in the game.

February 21 (Update 126)

Improved the «anti-cheat» system.

In the «Payment Terminals», «Russia» is selected by default.

Added the PayPerClick Button in the payment section.

Fixed: the empty list of numbers from mobile operators in the payment section.

Fixed: the incorrect display of the buttons in the WebMoney payment section.

Fixed: the absence of supplies in the garage, which made them unusable.

February 19 (Update 125)

Removed the holiday billboards and paint.

Updated the server platform version.

Removed the calculator from the DAOPAY payment option.

February 14 (Update 124)

Holiday «Valentine’s Day».

Billboards and festive paint.

50% Discount on all Firebird grades.

Initial achievement set at 200 crystals.

February 13 (Update 123)

Changed the economic system of the game.

Added a lag smoothing effect when destroying enemy tanks.

Divided the English forum into organised sections.

Fixed auto guider of the Railgun and Shaft.

Fixed a bug that allowed you to change the configuration of the tank during the battle without losing points.

Fixed the lack of guidance about the new upgrades in the garage available after ranking up.

Fixed a bug in which news alert appeared repeatedly at the entrance to the game.

Fixed a bug in which there was no alert showing the player the reason after being kicked.

Fixed a bug in which non-referral players were present in the referral lists of players.

Fixed — enemy mines displayed after self-destruction.

Fixed a bug in which players had a negative number of mines in the garage.

February 5 (Update 122)

Turn off the system, which required E-mail to register.

February 1 (Update 121.3)

Fixed Railgun and Isida.

Fixed a bug that caused de-synchronization of game servers

January 31 (Update 121.2)

Setting up of the new server platform.

January 30 (Update 121.1)

Correction of errors in the new platform.

Fixed the ban system on the forum.

Fixed bug report system in the payments section.

January 28 (Update 121)

Translation of «Tanki Online» to a new server platform.

January 24 (Update 120)

Smoothed and reduced the lag effect. Tanks do not chop while driving.

Fixed a bug in which auto-target did not work from afar.

Fixed the false automatic disconnection of users during battle.

Fixed an error in the Isida.

Fixed errors in the speed of rotation of the Shaft turret in scope mode.

The power indicator Dual Energy in scope mode now appears correctly.

January 16 (Update 119)

Further development on the anti-cheat.

January 10 (Update 118)

Changes in the payment section.

2012

December 29 (Update 117)

Gold Box value at 200 crystals until the morning January 9th, 2013!

Body «Hunter M0» free for all. Changing recruit Kit.

Mysterious clues on maps.

December 26 (Update 116)

Changed the logic of bonus boxes.

December 25 (Update 115)

Christmas mood in «Tanki Online»! Paint, billboards, boxes, flags!

December 17 (Update 114)

rebalance is introduced...

December 12 (Update 113)

Introduced two test maps in new style, Gallery and Crash.

December 7 (Update 112)

Improvements in the anti-cheat system.

Changing the logic behind the release of bonus boxes in the battle.

November 29 (Update 111)

In the payment section added a credit cards payment button.

Removed the «Consultants' battle» paint.

Reactivated control points mode on the map «Kungur».

November 21 (Update 1.110.0)

Added a system for auto-tuning graphic settings for the game.

Disabled «The first fight before registration." A tutorial replaced it.

November 8 (Update 1.108.0)

Fixed a bug that caused false «kick for inactivity» out of the battle

Fixed the link for «Other» in the payment section

October 30 (Update 1.107.0)

Hosted «Halloween» at «Tanki Online»

October 24 (Update 1.106.0)

Ability to login and register through «VKontakte».

Fixed a bug in the email validation system.

October 11 (Update 1.105.0)

The «soft particles» are disabled by default.

Maps and AtraI AtraII have been combined. The maximum number of players in the Atra increased to 8 in DM mode and up to 4/4 for team battles. The map is also refined in terms of performance and gameplay.

Improved the 2042 map. Changes have affected the performance and gameplay. Also in 2042 was added the «control points» mode.

October 4 (Update 1.104.0)

Added a new «Dynamic shadows» function!

Improved the system of getting bonuses in the game TDM.

Changed the texture of guns Freeze, Ricochet and Shaft

September 6 (Update 1.100.0)

New game mode «control points."

Updated graphics in «Tanki Online».

Added the traces of the guns shots for all of the guns.

Added animated tank tracks.

Added the «soft particles».

Added the fog effects.

Added option to purchase experience through the experience indicator.

Added a chat command #wiki, which creates a link to Wikipedia of «Tanki Online».

Updated tips when loading the game.

Corrected the description of the «Holiday» paint.

Made some changes on the map «Sandal».

August 22 (Update 1.99.4)

In the payment section the button Webbilling was added!

Fixed the ability to send a chat message containing only spaces.

Fixed the function of going to an element of the garage from a banner showing the new things available.

May 24 (Update 1.84.0)

Fixed a bug that allowed the gun to fire Shaft with maximum damage immediately after the spawn tank.

Fixed a bug where the forum was not accessible after being unbanned.

Set up and added more to the anti-cheat system.

Changed link button 'Other' in the payment section.

Consultants can no longer be banned for flooding in the chat.

On the maps of Silence and Silence II fixes and moved drop zone crystal boxes.

May 23 (Update 1.83.0)

Changed the map preview for the 2042 summer and winter themes.

May 18 (Update 1.82.0)

Improved the anti-cheat system.

Tank shadows added to the game.

Added traces of gun shots of the Smoky gun.

Added different areas for the falling of the gold box in the following maps:

2042

Winter 2042

Boombox

Boombox winter

Garder

Winter Garder

Sandbox

Sandbox winter

Silence

Winter Silence

Silence 2

Winter Silence 2

Zone

Zone winter

Fixed incorrect behaviour of the slider for selecting the rank-limits when you create a battle.

Removed the ability to create DM battles for 0 persons.

Worked on the payment section. Fixed internal links and descriptions.

May 3 (Update 1.79.1)

Fixed a bug where links to restore and change the password were not working.

Improved the anti-cheat system

April 28 (Update 1.79.0)

The «Best of May» competition started!

Increased rank-limit during battle creation for higher ranks.

Refined the anti-cheat system.

April 26 (Update 1.78.0)

The logic of the falling of bonus, crystal boxes and gold boxes changed.

Fixed a bug in the list of battles, when the selection of a new battle became impossible, as the indicator kept changing back to the previous battle.

Fixed a bug that instead of working links to a battle appeared meaning less #.

Localized and fixed a memory leak. Now the server will work more reliably.

Worked on more anti-cheat system settings.

April 19 (Update 1.77.0)

Started a new campaign: «share the confiscated goods!».

Added a system that will send important reminders about account security in the chat.

Removed reference to «Tanki Online 2.0." from the alert that appears when receiving a Double Crystal.

Fixed the short links in the chat.

Changed the logic of the rank-limit slider used during battle creation.

Changed the rank-limits.

April 12

When you create a battle, the rank limit is now tied to the creator’s rank.

The victory conditions selected when creating a battle have been change and the maximum time is 300 minutes, 100 flags and 999 kills.

Blocked players can now see the reason why they were blocked, when trying to log into the game.

April 4

Improved the blocking system of external links in the chat.

Released a system that blocks the instantaneous delivery of flags.

March 28

In the game, hardware acceleration support was added.

March 7

Optimized the operation of the system, which blocks the external links in the chat.

A number of guns had correction of drop damage and projectile force of the impact, depending on the distance to the target.

Fixed a bug which caused the sight of the Shaft gun could stay on after the release of the lobby.

Removed the ability to create an artificial delay before firing a Railgun.

Ricochet again damages when shooting close to the target.

Work was carried out with the code, which will reduce the number of restarts of game servers during the day.

The system now supports server checks that do not allow you to create a battle with any rank restrictions.

Amended in the system of damage accuracy, any damage is now calculated more accurately.

Added warning message when the Gold Box is being taken.

Check box «Remember me» on login form is now enabled by default, and stores the selected state.

January 27

The level of protection from the use of third-party software in the game has grown considerably.

The newbies reward for «Creating a battle» has been removed from the game.

Pressing the «start» button on the site, a new player does not go into the first battle, but to an entrance window, where he will be able to choose between the passage to the first battle, or registration without it.

In the game we added the winter version of the maps:

2042 Winter

Arena Winter

Atra Winter

Atra II Winter

Camp Winter

Canyon Winter

Courage Winter

Deck-9 Winter

Duality Winter

Farm Winter

Garder Winter

Gravity Winter

Highland Winter

Highland II Winter

Highways Winter

Industrial zone Winter

Massacre Winter

Noise Winter

Novel Winter

Opposition Winter

Pass Winter

Polygon Winter

Silence Winter

Silence II Winter

Stadium Winter

Station Winter

Subway Winter

Valley Winter

Wave Winter

Zone Winter

2011

October 17

Amendments made to the «Shaft» gun.

September 23

The incorrect display of «Shaft» performance in the garage has been fixed. All purchased guns have been removed, and the crystals paid for them refunded.

A new map was added -«Labyrinth» .

In the list of tips that appear when loading a game, a new recommendation— «Do not talk.»

September 22

Shaft gun re-balancing was finished. Previous version of the gun was confiscated from all players who bought it and spent crystals were repaid.

In new version of the gun we:

simplified control;

added possibility to shoot without using scope;

added possibility to stay in sniper mode as long as you want with fully charged gun;

removed black filling in scope mode;

visually enhanced the scope;

changed boxes and flags displaying in scope mode, now they become semitransparent to simplify aiming.

Four new paints added to the Garage: Irbis, Jade, Lead, Needle

added new map Highways from MonkeyMagic.

September 9

We have added «Registration» button to first battle interface. Now new player can register, not finishing the first battle. User still can achieve the first rank and get reward for this during the first fight or in any other battle.

Password length was limited to 32 symbols.

September 1

Payments for crystals using Paypal have resumed.

The cost of all payments through SMS are now include VAT.

The minimum payment through SMS payment for MTC subscribers has been set at 300 roubles. This change was made by the service provider itself. In the past an error could be experienced when attempting to make a payment less than 300 roubles.

The ability to make a one symbol password without an e-mail has been excluded.

August 25

The registration form has been improved. It has become smaller, more convenient — nicer.

Battle creation has been optimized for newbies, thanks to that fact in such battles there will be more players.

In the loading screen «TV grid» has been replaced with the game logo.

August 18

We have changed the formula of user rating calculating. Now it doesn’t count crystals bought for real money. The rating of all users will be recalculated in two days.

We have simplified the game entering mechanics. Now after clicking the Start

button a newcomer enters the battle without registration. There he can
meet tankers of Recruit, Private and Gefreiter rank. Such a player
automatically gets the nickname RecruitNNNNN, where NNNNN is unique
number.

A player is offered to fill the registration form only after

reaching Private rank.

If you are not a newcomer, but also found yourself in a battle with newbies and with nickname RecruitNNNNN, then click «I have an account» button in the upper part of the game menu. We have created a basic achievement system, which helps newcomers to learn some basic elements of the game. Now you get crystal prizes for such actions, as registration after the first battle, joining the first battle after registration, first buying in the Garage etc.

We have changed loading indications. Now it looks like the charging

mechanism of artillery gun. Also game advices are shown during
loading.

We have simplified the registration form.

The Tab button now is functional in all fields.

You need to enter less information to register. Only nickname and

password are required.

The Hall of Fame button was removed from the game menu.

Every player now can create a no-supply battle without a pass. The

creator also can enter this battle without a pass.

We have improved the WebMoney payment option. Now you can choose the

currency and amount of crystals right in the payment section.

The Shaft gun became visually shorter.

We have created a special paint for moderators.

Player notification regarding the Double crystal bonus card was

optimized.

If a player has such a card, he sees an alternative version of the Buy

button.

The sum on the Add button in the Garage is adjusted for Double

Crystal.

Notification about an active Double Crystal bonus card is shown in

the payment section.

The PayPal button is temporary removed from the payment section. We’ll start to

take PayPal payments again soon.

Now you can’t skip the nick checking procedure.

The respawn was fixed in the blue team on Noise map.

The wall bug was fixed on Scope map.

The Paints «Champion» (for Clan Tournament winners) and Acid (for TOF

winners) were given protection against the Shaft.

Now you can’t shoot from under the bridge right through the slope of

the bridge.

We have finished work on the German version of Tanki Online. Get ready to meet German

players soon!

July 19

Secret Gold Box event launched.

Debug mode turned off

June 29

Shaft gun went on sale!

Daily gift from now on are given to players from the first rank.

We have created payment form for Chronopay payment system.

A problem with Sandbox map was fixed. Newbie and veteran alike now can create battle on this map.

Battle found sharing was fixed for those cases, when the first and the second winners have the same amount of points.

Bug at Esplanade map, resulted in tank sticking, was fixed.

May 26

We have added three new paints with turret protection effect to the Garage. They are Inferno, Emerald and Zeus.

We have added «re:" command to the chat. If you type «re:" (Without quotes) and space, nickname of the last person who wrote you appears in the text field.

Text in the header of payment section was rewritten.

EasyPay button was removed from payment section.

May 23

Now you can use Q and E keys as well as PgUp/PgDown for camera control.

Freeze shooting effect was visually modified.

We have added new maps: Atra II and Rift by Flanagun.

April 21

Now you can’t take the flag lying under the bridge while you are on the bridge.

We have connected Gate2Shop payment system for VISA cards. Now you can make payments all over the world.

Maximal amount of players in Massacre map increased from 3 per team in team matches and 6 in Deathmatch to 5 per team and 10 respectively.

After temporary outage in-game news alert was turned on again.

April 11

New version of «Madness» map in space style and with the gravity close to zero.

We have added an in-game alert about fresh news.

Minor changes in registration form.

March 31

We have fixed problem with Paysafecard payment cards.

We have updated Courage map. Walls were put away, platforms became wider.

March 23

New registration form.

March 21

We have realized sources storage in local SharedObject of Flash Player. It allows us to abandon browser caching system, which is not very reliable. For example, sources could disappear from browser cache because of its limited size. Now sources are downloaded from the server only if they were changed. It can drastically reduce time of game loading.

March 4

We have enhanced Anti-cheat system.

We have installed special billboards, added Holiday paint to the Garage and replaced flags with the bouquets in CTF mode in honour of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on the 8th of March.

We have corrected the Nitro effect for the frozen tank. Now you will be better able to feel this effect.

Four new servers are launched.

February 22

A problem with the «Add More» button has been fixed.

A problem with the preview picture in the message concerning new hull-buying has been fixed.

We have added a special holiday paint in honour of Defender of the Fatherland.

We have installed holiday billboards.

From now on every first-time crystal buyer will receive an additional 100 crystals as a bonus.

February 17

We initiated rank limit for forum authorization. Now tankman gathered less than 500 points in the game can not post messages at the forum. However he can freely read others posts.

Registration and authorization system in the game was optimized.

February 15

We connected new emitter for collecting VISA/MasterCard payments — Uniteller.

We changed PayPal aggregator. Now we accept PayPal payments through OnlineDengi.

Unique gun Smoky XT became more powerful. Now it makes not 16–36 but 26–46 damage points. Also we increased the power of a blow of Smoky XT’s shell to 2.2.

We fixed «Double crystal» bonus card overview. Now it includes the following info: bonus crystals are not taken into account in referral transfers, in transition to Tanki Online 2.0 they will be counted like ordinary crystals but not like bought ones.

February 11

We’ve added new item in your daily presents — the «Double Crystal» discount card. This card allows you to get double your money’s worth for crystals.

An error that made it possible to make infinite use of supplies has been eliminated.

The shopping cart icon used for entering payment section has been replaced with a «Buy» button.

The garage has been optimized through the use of progressive loading. Upon entering the garage only visible items are loaded, allowing for faster entry. All other information will be loaded when players scroll through item lists.

We have launched a notification system that notifies players the moment they achieve a new rank. The message is displayed during battle.

We have also launched an alert system, informing players about new items available for purchase in the Garage. A message displaying the icons of these items will appear when a players receives a new rank and leaves battle or enters the game. Click on the icon guides to the description of the item in the Garage.

February 1

Overloaded database, caused game instability, was modified. Now all player’s achievements are not only saved but also stored through Redis. This solves a lot of issues. Due to this update search logic in the Hall of Fame is temporarily changed. To find user, you should type his full nickname, not part of it.

January 28

Problem with missing letter for e-mail (password) change was solved.

Problem with inability to enter private battle through the link was solved.

Error messages are more detailed now. This helps find and solve problems more promptly.

Hash for server entering without password during evacuation and hash for permanent server entering without password are differ now. It increases protection level of the game.

January 18

Button for bonus administrating in No-Supplies battles was restored. Players, who bought No-Supplies battles pass in the period when the button was absent, got their crystals back.

Loader picture was changed.

Payments check system now sends letters to users from general tech support e-mail address help@tankionline.com. It means you can contact technical support team to get info about your request just by answering received e-mail.

January 2

Protection system from hash pickup was enhanced. Generating algorithm was changed, time between trials to enter by hash was increased. Besides, all tankers entering the game will get new hash automatically.

January 1

Payment bug report system was upgraded. Now when player sends payment bug report, system automatically checks if this payment was successful or not. If it was, player receives confirmation letter. If it wasn’t, tech support team automatically gets task and player receives a letter about that. Note: if player made a few identical payments, it is necessary to specify that in payment bug report form.

2010

December 27

To enhance the level of protection we added CAPTCHA to the registration form

Speed hack protection system was upgraded

Anti-cheat system in general was upgraded too

Bug-report form for SMS-payments was enhanced

Hints for newbies now stay on the screen for several first battles — it makes knowing of Tanki Online much easier

December 21

TDM and CTF modes were added to Fort Knox III

Map «Old Silence» was added to the game

December 14

Warning about long first loading in loader.

Old winter props where upgraded.

Problem with password recovery was solved.

The principle of sport battles creation was enhanced. Now if somebody tries to launch no-supply battle without flag, kill or time limit, «Start» button is blocked.

Anti-flood was connected with registration form and nick checking system.

Link for password and e-mail changing now works only once — it allows to avoid errors.

Problem with «grey screen» was solved partially.

Meter of online activity was upgraded so now it shows amount of users in the chat more precisely.

Stats for long battles (with fund not less than 200 crystals) now are uploaded to file. It allows to save information about fund of battle. Attention! Could be differences in figures as far as stats are saved every minute but not every second.

October 21

Updates on the map «Garder» from Nobius

October 19

Updates on the map «Camp» from Figishe

October 18

Tank is no longer a barrier for Freeze or Firebird streams.

If you were forcibly disconnected from server you can not connect to this server for 5 minutes. But you can connect to any other server immediately.

«Phantom» problem is solved. Earlier, if user disconnected during loading he became so called «phantom». He was in the list of battle but he wasn’t in the game.

Now if player gets automatic ban for flood his chat history is cleared.

October 5

Solved the problem which led to unfreezing starting simultaneously with freezing. Now unfreezing starts right after it.

October 4

Freezes were taken away from your garages, crystals have been returned.

Updates of map «Madness».

October 1

Increase of freezing speed. Freezes will be returned within 3 days after the release.

Updates on the map «Silence» from Figishe

September 29

Setting of mip-mapping turn-on(off) function, which will bring down picture quality, but will raise performance and reduce the use of working memory. View the demo with mip-mapping function here (use Space to turn on/off).

Eliminated vulnerabilities which led to the following problems: destroyed or invisible tank which could shoot and move.

September 27

«Hall of Fame " was transported to a separate server. This improvement solved the problem with uneven achievement changes in hall of fame, raised game servers' performance and speeded servers' restarts greatly, but there will be a delay with rate upgrade (up to 15 minutes).

Now the size of activated and gathered first-aid kits is summed up.

Eliminated vulnerabilities which led to the following troubles: supplies' re-use; tanks' acceleration.

August 26

We have made traffic encryption. Cheat users are detected. They will be fined to 25% of all achievements, crystals on the account and stuff in the garage.

Client side of the game was optimized to solve some problems with game performance.

New coats (Taiga, Cedar, Clay, Sandstone, Rock, Prodigi).

Ricochet was rebalanced. All early bought Ricochets put out from the garages and crystals for them returned.

Freeze was rebalanced. Now Freeze damages victim from the beginning and freezes it at the same time.

Chat was split in Russian and English versions.

New function in the chat: deleting chat history by player’s nickname.

The problem with cutting off hanged up players is solved.

The mass and dynamics of Hornet M3 was restored.

The problem with tanks bounding during collisions was solved.

Isida aiming priority was changed. If ally has full health Isida doesn't detect it as an aim.

Time checking system for resource loading was added. If resources can not be loaded for certain time the loading will be started from the beginning.

Bonus medkit value is changed. Now the medkit found during battle heals 50% of hull HP.

Appearance of different Freeze modifications now differs.

The problem of displaying previews which don’t correspond to maps was solved.

Now the size of explosion depends on the size of tank.

July 30

CTF mode for Ping-pong map was added

New maps: Opposition from Hans_Rose, Madness from Flanagun

Sound of explosion was changed

July 29

New coats including coats with resists to different guns (another pack of coats will arrive soon)

New principle of medkit functioning

Flag indication is back but text now gradually become transparent and disappear

New effect and sound of explosion

Isida action is corrected (sometimes it didn’t heal or didn’t damage the target)

Aiming algorithm is changed, enemy flag bearer has maximal priority

Speed of unfreezing with Firebird depends on Firebird' modification

Speed of Freezing enemy with Freeze depends on Freeze' modification

Ricochet modifications now differ from each other visually

Shot effects of different modifications of Freeze and Ricochet differ from each other visually

Banned player now see not only the time of ban but also the reason for ban

When you change password or e-mail through special form the link for password recovery (hash) is changed too

July 15

Time of unfreezing reduced twofold.

July 13

These problems were successfully solved:

if game loading was interrupted player didn’t get a gift;

anti-foul language system reacted to the links of battles with «eb» in the name;

critical errors in the battles;

clickable battle links containing «?rnd=…" didn’t work;

search system cleared valid search results;

click to the battle link from the Garage or Hall of Fame opened information about other battle.

July 10

We have made server optimization to reduce the amount of lags.

July 8

There are two new guns: Freeze and Ricochet.

Each hull now has its own weight.

Links for the battles in chat channel are clickable now. When you click the link you see the list of battles and information about them.

There are new maps: Farm and Noise from Nobius; Massacre and Ping Pong from A_Creature; Atra (idea from JlEHb) and Station from Flanagun.

We’ve changed flags indication in battles. Written messages from the center of the screen were taken away. Now all informative symbols are allocated in the bottom right corner.

Different modifications of Hornet, Viking and Mammoth have different appearance now.

In the Hall of Fame we’ve improved search system based on player’s nickname. Now a few letters from the nick in the search line disappear if there are not any similarities with search request.

All links in the chat channel are clickable now but when you are trying to proceed the link which is not marked as trusted you get warning.

We have made server optimization to reduce the amount of lags.

We have changed terminology. The word «Kill» was replaced by «Destroy», «Died» by «Lost», «Suicided» by «Selfdestructed».

The problem of e-mail changing when the e-mail wasn’t specified during registration was solved.

E-mails in the chat channel now look like links. Click to the link automatically launches your default e-mail client.

We’ve launched bad language checking system for names of battles.

Evacuation system was improved. Battles migrate to other server gradually not overloading receiving server with great amount of players at a time.

Hornet M1 hull price cut to 1350 crystals.

June 4

New gift system. Now you can find one of three different presents in the daily bonus. It can be supplies (1 or 2), crystals or one day no-supplies battles pass. Players get the gifts starting from the third rank only.

We added Prepaid Cards subsection in the payment section. Payments through Wallie, Paysafecard, Rixty and CashU are now supported.

Banned player now gets information about the period of his ban right in the chat. Nobody beside him can see this message.

From now on the chat is open for players with the private and higher ranks.

We have solved the problem with invisible tanks.

There are drop points for golden crates in every map now.

Different Dictator modifications have different appearances now.

Each Isida modification got its own shooting effect color.

The problem with e-mail confirmation has been successfully resolved.

We launched the second part of the account protection system. If you specified an e-mail in your account you will see the button «Change e-mail and password» instead of standard form for e-mail and password changing. When you click this button you get the e-mail with the link forwarding you to the page with the form for e-mail and password changing. If you didn’t specify an e-mail you can make changes right in the Settings menu without confirmation.

Now you can enter no-supplies battle for one-time payment in the amount of 50 crystals.

There are new maps: 2042 by GT-Razer, Island by Figishe, Combe by Figishe, Desert by Figishe, Gravity by M0ONL1ght, Pass by Figishe, Deck-9 by M0ONL1ght, Canyon by M0ONL1ght, Polygon by Figishe and Plato by Figishe.

May 21

Now a nick is checked against prohibited words during registration;

Public command #feedback added — it is a switch to the system of ideas and suggestions feedback.tankionline.com;

March 10

Experimentally reduced points for Isida cure. Coefficient was reduced from 2 to 1,5. Experiment will last for a week.

March 5

Button «Improve» is placed next to «Set» in the Garage.

Every modification of turrets and shells is described now in a special table which is placed in the Garage.

Fixed bugs in Firebird and Isida: Firebird had greater damage effect than it had to, Isida had less damage effect than it had to. Now similar modifications of Firebird and Isida have equal damage effect in full charge.

Fixed bug when Firebird effect during shoot while moving was displayed incorrectly. There used to be very long flame while moving backwards and very short one — while moving forward.

Abolished passes — Double Score. All the players who purchased the pass during making changes on server will get their crystals back.

A new pass was added — Score multiplier pass: multiplies all received points by 25%, lifetime — one month.

A new pass was added — No-supplies battle: enables you to create and enter no-supplies battles, lifetime — one month.

Modifications of Railgun and Twins look differently now.

Now the Mine is included in everyday present.

February 10

Added new consumable — mine. View details in FAQ.

Done effects visualization. View details in FAQ.

Changed visualization of consumable blocking time after usage (cooldown).

Improved automatic anti-foul language system: now the chat knows 1 300 000 Russian words. If you do not misspell the words, false responses will be rare.

Improved registration form — added check-up of nick availability (after you enter the needed nick and are inactive in entry field for two seconds or switching to password entry field, the nick is checked and next to it you see a tick or a red cross).

Now you get twice as much points for curing the tanker who carries a flag.

Summer is back! All the maps now have pleasant green landscape.

Maps Fort Knox and Wolfenstein are back.

Added new map Chernobyl from Duke 2.0

Lessened lobby loading time due to reduction of loaded maps preview, now they load when needed.

Now every modification of Smoky, Firebird, Twins and Railgun has own graphic effect.

Now you can use alternative payment system for VISA/MasterCard in payment section.

Solved bug when points were not accounted when you kill Isida owner or a patient during cure.

Karma was introduced in Chat: if you misbehaved, the chat remembers it and takes into account when giving automatic ban, but soon forgets about misbehaviour.

All newcomers will appear in the battle at once without entering game menu.

Now you can invite friends to the game through email.

Payment systems Yandex. Dengi and Webmoney were moved to another payment aggregator (2Pay). But you still can pay through the former aggregator (OnlineDengi).

Now if you, for some reason, lost connection with the game (being in the battle), you can return without loosing your achievements. Time to return into the battle — 2 minutes.

Changed algorithm of anti-foul language system. Within some period of time there can be false responses, since we’re perfecting the system. If you have examples of false responses please send them to help@tankionline.com

Changed algorithm of anti-flood system, now anti-flood follows typing of similar symbols in a row in one message.

Flags finally have taken their stand.

Fixed bug of mismatch between number of players in the battle list and battle info (9/11).

Changed the sound of Twins shooting.

January 16

Experimental changes in the Twins gun: the vertical angle for automatic targeting is now increased (3 degrees upwards, 3 downwards), speed of flight of the individual shells is lowered.

January 14

Eliminated a vulnerability that allowed to increase the speed in battles (aka speed hack). Now if you somehow speed up the tank, you’ll be automatically kicked from the battle.

January 12

Twins is experimentally strengthened for one week. You can discuss the current stats and post your impressions/suggestions here

The referral banned display problem is now solved.

2009

December 31

It’s the New Year’s eve, and all the guns have gone crazy!

December, 30

Fixed an issue with Isida’s healing action. Previously, healing was done in percent and not in HP.

Added an option to enable/disable the battle chat. If the combat chat is turned off, messages will not be displayed. However, you may press enter to view all the messages you missed as well as to write one yourself.

December 29

Changed aggregator of payment terminals. Now we receive payments through terminals in four countries

Redesigned section for crystal purchasing

Improved ban system

Added new SMS-payment aggregator. Now we receive payments in 67 countries

December 25

Fixed bug with automatic naming of battle creation

Changed #plans, #faq и #rules considering new forum

Improved shadows under buildings on the snow

Links to new forum are automatically changed into clickable ones

Changed tree-flag design

December 23

Winter came to all the maps

Flags were temporarily turned into fir-trees

Introduced system of automatic change of capital letters into lowercase ones

Fixed bug of damaging through walls with the help of Firebird

The principle of pause mode has been changed. The pause mode is activated by pressing P or Pause button. If a tank has been destroyed while pause is active, the tank doesn’t spawn until the pause mode is disabled. In the beginning of a new round all tanks are spawned regardless of active pause.

In Chat when entering #plans appears conversion into clickable link to the corresponding Forum thread. in Chat #plans is displayed as Задачи и планы разработчиков in Russian localization and Developers’ missions and plans in English one

Maps Wolfenstein and Fort Knox were temporarily disconnected to be prepared for winter

December 18

In Chat when entering #faq or #rules appears conversion into clickable link to the corresponding Forum thread. In Chat #faq is displayed as FAQ for Russian and English localization, and #rules is displayed as Правила in Russian localization and Rules in the English one

In Chat the links to the forum are clickable

Own tank doesn’t have now nick and rank indication next to health/charge indication stripes

Fixed bug of single-use items use of a tank in inactive (translucent) mode

Fixed bug of First Aid single use when having full health

Added new maps: Cross from eras, Skylark from DJ_Efreitor, Wolfenstein from GrUm, Fort Knox from GrUm, Bobruisk from DJ_Efreitor.

Improved checking of items use frequency

December 11

Now in battles with bigger funds a golden box with 100 crystals instead of 1000 crystals appears

Hall of fame is functioning again

Improved system of automatic monitoring of foul language in chat

Network acceleration, now the servers can be used by larger number of tankers

Changed Nitro icon in the battle

December 3

Added three maps: Serpuhov from DukePlatinum, Siege from Stefman, Short Bridge from eras

The pause was added to the game, now during respown you don’t leave transparent mode until you start being active. The pause is limited by autokick for inactivity (5 minutes)

Plasma spheres were visually reduced

The colour of the sky is now blue-grey

Now a golden box with 1000 crystals can appear in battles with bigger funds

November 12

Changed design of Nitro item

Increased screenshot size when sending bugs through bugtracker, now full-screen screenshot is sent

Fixed bug with missing of upper menu after sending bug through bug tracker

November 3

Corrected damage dispersal range of all the weapons

October 27

Adopted improved 3D engine. Your FPS will become higher

Fixed bug when the player could enter CTF battle with complete team

October 16

Adopted Russian localization

Now in the Garage you can purchase «DoubleScore» which will double your points. Lifetime — 6 or 72 hours from the moment of purchasing

Alterations in CTF mode: for returning the flag you’ll be granted with extra points, for flag-carrier destruction your score will be doubled

Improved antiflood system

Fear Machine renamed to Railgun

Changed payment aggregator for VISA/MasterCard. Now we take payments from all over the world

Present delivery is done when the date changes but not from the moment of entering the game

Started voting for RuNet award, we invite you to support our project, voting link is available in the info window of present delivery

Added new map Lost Temple from GrUm

Added new map Dusseldorf from Avokado

Added new map Duel from Stefman

Added new map Magistral from DukePlatinum

October 14

Isida damage returned to previous position, self-healing switched off

October 10

Isida damage and self-healing lowered to 20%

October 9

Now payment through Web Money allows entering five-place number of crystals

Any method of payment allows using your nick

Double Damage renamed to Double Power because of the new gun Isida. Now it doesn’t matter what gun you use — Double Power will reinforce any gun.

October 8

Now players receive presents (several single-use items) every day

Fixed bug with suction boxes on Monte Carlo

Changed function of payment through SMS. Now the message should contain the text «BTL+nick»

October 5

Added new map Osa from DukePlatinum

October 2

Decreased recoil force while shooting with Twins and Fear Machine, to compensate the new aiming system